Tuileries Palace

The Tuileries Palace was a royal and imperial palace in Paris, France that stood on the right bank of the Seine from 1564 to 1871. The Tuileries was built by Queen Catherine de Medici, and Henry IV of France was the first French monarch to use the Tuileries as his official Paris residence. After King Louis XIV of France moved the court to Versailles in 1672, the Tuileries Palace was virtually abandoned and used only as a theater, and it was not until 6 October 1789 that a French monarch (King Louis XVI) returned to the palace. King Louis XVI was forced to return to the palace from Versailles after the Women's March on Versailles, and a revolutionary mob stormed the palace on 10 August 1792, massacring the Swiss Guards as the royal family fled to the safety of the Legislative Assembly. The Tuileries accomodated the National Assembly, the National Convention, and the Council of Five Hundred of the French Directory until the French government moved to the Palais Bourbon in 1798. After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup in 1799, the Tuileries Palace became his residence, and it became the official residence of the First Consul and, later, the Emperor of the First French Empire. The Tuileries Palace also served as the royal residence under the Bourbon Restoration, the July Monarchy, and the Second French Empire, having been looted during the French Revolution of 1848. In May 1871, during the Paris Commune Revolt, the Communards razed the palace, the ruins of which were finally demolished in 1882.